Uniquely Powerful

“Do you want to go away as well?” “Lord, to whom shall we go?” John 6:67–68

D.L. MOODY
The sun is thousands of years old, but gasoline is new. Shall we then use only gasoline in place of the sun? Block up all the windows of your houses and have nothing to do with the sun! You might as well do that as give up the Bible. Outgrown it! Why, there is no book to be compared with it. No other book will lift up the world. If you could go into a town where men were trying to love without that good book, you would flee from it as they who left Sodom and Gomorrah. Have infidels ever produced a Knox, a Bunyan, or a Milton?

ERWIN LUTZER
I once read a story about a young man who, in a fit of anger, threw the Bible his mother had given him from a train into a passing field. Weeks later, he repented of the sin of desecrating God’s Word and returned to the spot, hoping to find his discarded Bible. The story goes that he met a young man who had found the Bible and, as a result, had come to saving faith in Christ.
My point: Moody was right, there is no other book like the Bible. “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105, KJV). Someone has said that the Ten Commandments are like ten lanterns that guard us from wandering into evil. As warning lights, they say to us, “Don’t slip into the ditch! Stay on the path.” “Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward” (Psalm 19:11).
The Bible warns us and instructs us. And yet, our appetite for God’s Word is diluted by our addictions to technology and the struggles of life. We don’t take time to let the Word of God feed us, encourage us, and rebuke us. Blessed are those who meditate in the law of God “day and night” (see Psalm 1:1–2).

PRAYER
Father, let me hide thy Word in my heart so I might not sin against you.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS
What is the role of the Bible in Your life?

What does the Bible say it should be?